John Terry and Wayne Bridge will cover up differences for Englands consequence insists Stuart Pearce

Stuart Pearce does not anticipate any problems between John Terry and Wayne Bridge when the pair meet up for England duty next week.

Both men are expected to be in the squad Fabio Capello names on Saturday for England"s friendly with African Nations Cup winners Egypt at Wembley on March 3.

It will be the first time the pair have shared a dressing room since the stories emerged about Terry"s private life that resulted in Capello sacking him as skipper.

Friends reunited: Wayne Bridge and John Terry will meet up for England duty

By a quirk of fate, Terry and Bridge are due to be on opposite sides on Saturday, when Chelsea entertain Manchester City in a Premier League encounter at Stamford Bridge.

However, neither then, nor, more importantly, when Terry and Bridge are in the same England side, does Pearce expect any personal issues to get in the way of their professional duties.

"I don"t see it being an issue," said Pearce, current Under 21 coach and also a valued member of Capello"s backroom team, who was speaking at the launch of the Nationwide Right Hand Fan competition, on behalf of England team sponsors Nationwide.

"We had a situation that I didn"t feel warranted a week"s worth of front-page news. Most people have backed the way that Fabio has handled it and now I don"t think there will be a problem at all.

"When you turn up to represent England, the only thing that is important is England winning.

Professional: Terry and Bridge will put their differences to one side, says Pearce

"People will be professional. Forever and a day there have beenindividuals in dressing rooms who don"t get on with each other.

"But you leave all that to one side when you turn up to represent your country. That is the only thing that matters."

Pearce is also confident Terry will not be affected by the loss of his cherished armband to central defensive partner Rio Ferdinand.

In fact, as a former skipper himself, Pearce can see a spin-off in the form of Ferdinand"s performance-level being lifted as a result of his own elevation.

"You will never alter the way John Terry plays," said Pearce. "He is a fantastic leader of men. That is why he was made captain of Chelsea and England.

"He is selfless and puts the team before himself. He will continue to do the same things, on the pitch and in the dressing room, as he has always done.

"What it will do is give a massive lift to Rio Ferdinand because he is now the permanent England captain until Fabio decides that is not the case.

Captaincy material: Frank Lampard (left) and Wayne Rooney (right)

"But there are also a few other people in the side, the likes of (Wayne) Rooney and (Frank) Lampard, who have captaincy ingredients. It is not just about the fellow who wears the armband."

The state of Terry"s relationship with Bridge was thrown into even sharper focus by the broken ankle that threatens Ashley Cole"s participation in South Africa this summer. Currently also bearing the brunt of negative headlines about his personal affairs, Cole is undoubtedly one of England"s world-class performers.

And, as a former left-back of some repute himself, Pearce has no hesitation delivering the ultimate accolade.

"I have never been a great lover of trawling through the media for personal stories about people. My interest is football and Ashley Cole is the best left-back that has ever represented England by a million miles," said Pearce.

"Arguably he is the best in the world at present and for us to lose him for the summer would be a big blow.

"He doesn"t carry a lot of weight so we hope the injury heals early enough for him to get some form and fitness ahead of the World Cup."

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Daimler agrees to $185m cheat assign settlement

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Daimler, the maker of Mercedes-Benz, agreed yesterday to pay $185 million (123 million) to settle allegations in America that the company paid bribes in 22 countries to win government business.

Among other charges, the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission accused the German carmaker and three subsidiaries of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bans improper payments to officials of other countries.

The settlement has to be approved by the US District Court in Washington at a hearing set for April 1. Daimler declined to comment before the hearing.

According to a Department of Justice court filing, Daimler paid millions of dollars in bribes to government officials in countries including Croatia, Latvia, Russia, Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro and Turkey between 1998 and 2008 to win lucrative government contracts.

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In one example, it was claimed that Daimler gave an official an armoured Mercedes for his birthday at a time when it was in talks to sell almost 200 vehicles to the Turkmenistan Government.

In some cases, Daimler wired ... improper payments to bank accounts or to the foreign bank accounts of US shell companies in order to transmit the bribe, the court filing said.

American officials, who claim that Daimler made $50 million in US-related corrupt transactions alone, have been investigating since David Bazzetta, a former auditor at Daimler, turned whistleblower in 2004. He claimed that he was dismissed after raising concerns about secret bank accounts that were used to pay foreign officials.

Daimler is expected to avoid any admission of wrongdoing.

Doctor Who: from ungainly child to scrupulous man in an hour

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Easter, we have been told for centuries from the pulpit, is a deteriorate of regeneration. The BBC as if intends no heresy in selecting Easter Saturday for the initial correct coming of the renewed Doctor Who, aka the actress Matt Smith, seen quickly at the really finish of David Tennants last tour in the piece at Christmas. By that extraordinary time transport infrequently accessible to the name few, yesterday reporters and the Welsh statute classes were delivered unto Cardiff to see Smiths entrance a fortnight early.

Secrecy surrounds Doctor Who similar to no alternative BBC programme and the media last night were speedy to comply a vouch of omerta per the sum of the episode, entitled The Eleventh Hour in honour of the eleventh Doctor. That, The Times, motionless still left room to regard it and quite the opening of Matt Smith. At 27, he is the youngest actress to land the part, nonetheless the shows new lead bard and producer, Steven Moffat, has regularly insisted that Smith won it despite, rather than since of, his youth. What was consequential was that by the finish of piece 1 we stopped meditative of him as young, for the Doctor is, as we all know, an visitor innate most Earth centuries ago.

What is crafty about Moffats book as well as Smiths understand is that it allows the new Doctor to grow inside of his initial hours outing. He starts as a raggedy-clothed, tatty-shirted doctor, a tie hardly cumulative around his neck. His actions are jerky, roughly similar to a newborns. He is a forehead-slapping, apple- munching, fishfinger-and-custard- nipping adolescent, still anticipating his place in his new body. By the finish the Doctor is roughly scrupulous in a tweedy coupler and firmly wrapped bow-tie. Theyre cool, he says of the neckware and my gamble is that by Yuletide they will be, too, even in necktie-free Britain.

The actors who have played the Doctor have all brought something to the part. William Hartnell, the original, expel in 1963, played him as a faultfinding Victorian comparison than his 55 years. His successor, Patrick Troughton, was a vast hobo. For many, zero has surpassed Tom Baker, a genuine individualist who in the late 1970s took the plots severely but never himself so.

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In the regenerated array post-2005 underneath Russell T. Davies, Christopher Eccleston regionalised the Doctor, and David Tennant brought an angsty audacity to the part. Others took something from the role, namely authority. There was zero lordly, and really small timelordly, about Sylvester McCoy.

Smith is positively aristocratic, a king rather than a duke of space and time, but one in no disbelief of his origin quickly referred to last night in the briefest of romps by the prior ten Doctors. But what he does move to the piece is in truth his youth. He is gentle with Google and Twitter, and is not going to run short of breath between all the rushing around that the complicated Doctor Who plots require.

Whereas Tennant incorporated the wretchedness of perpetuity in to the part, Smiths Doctor is not fearful to go Wow! when he sees what has happened to the inside of the Tardis. It is, incidentally, geometrically organised in greens and reds with a retro see that incoporates a Seventies digital clock, a gramophone horn and (oh dear) a span of prohibited and cold taps. Boys of all ages know that wow feeling when they initial assign up their new smartphone.

Karen Gillan, as the new messenger Amy, compensates for the Doctors service last Yuletide on finding he is not ginger, by being a intense redhead, a lady still and with a girls ignorance and sexiness and manifesting an viewable vanquish on her new man. Yet she as well grows up by the episodes end.

Again Moffat tackles the subject of lady in this commander by presenting her initial as an eight-year-old and afterwards 10 years later. It is an piece righteously most endangered with time, lively around the decades but additionally presenting the bulk of the movement in as nearby as dammit genuine time. Connoisseurs if not the Welsh Secretary Peter Hain and the former initial apportion Rhodri Morgan, who were between the VIP guest will additionally suffer it that the Paisley-born Moffat chose to set his entrance piece in a Scottish rather than a Welsh village.

The monster, as viewers will find at Easter, is a really large eye, a embellishment certainly for the measureless inspection this regenerative piece will attract. Moffat was shaken prior to the screening, nonetheless this, he said, indicating to his potion of red wine, was helping. He gives his new Doctor the line, I am still cooking. There will be critics, of course, but it looked well finished to me.

The new array of Doctor Who starts on BBC One on Saturday, Apr 3

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Hospitals to feel the mattock as Treasury saves 11bn

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Alistair Darling will exhibit sum of how he plans to cut eleven billion from Whitehall spending in the pre-election Budget, The Times has learnt.

The Chancellor, underneath vigour to convince markets that he is critical about rebellious the deficit, will go over than approaching in spelling out the accurate assets that each dialect will have to make.

As ultimate expansion total renewed fears that the economy could drop at the back of in to recession, Liam Byrne, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, has disclosed sum of a tip mini spending turn that he has been conducting at the back of the scenes.

The eleven billion is the primary complement of extreme cuts dictated to condense 82 billion in 4 years from the jot down 178 billion deficit. Some sanatorium buildings face closure as the supervision seeks to save billions of pounds from some-more fit services, Mr Byrne suggested.

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Until Mr Byrnes remarks yesterday it had been misleading either accurate cuts would be denounced subsequent month. The move is a feat for Mr Darling, who has been tussling with Gordon Brown about how far the Budget should item Labours due cuts and either any additional income should go on spending or savings.

Mr Byrne done transparent the perspective from the Treasury. Weve got to be most blunter about the plans for open spending, he said. Weve got to be still clearer and blunter about where the cuts are going to come from.

Without fanfare, Mr Byrne has been summoning each Cabinet co-worker and signing them up to large cuts in their using costs, from consultancy and appetite potency to improved have make use of of of online systems.

Some go a bit dark when you give them their share, he said. These will be set out in the Budget, at large approaching on Mar 24, as Labour moves to deflect off Tory accusations that it is boring the heels on slicing Britains debt.

Latest total showed Britain rising some-more strongly from retrogression than formerly suggested. Revised census data showed the economy flourishing by 0.3 per cent in the last 3 months of 2009, up from the primary 0.1 per cent. But the total additionally showed that last years contraction had been deeper than formerly believed.

The choosing debate will move up a rigging this week end when David Cameron will have a uninformed interest to electorate that usually he and the Tories can broach the shift the nation needs.

The Conservative personality will have make use of of his debate to the partys open discussion in Brighton to try to speak up new appetite and distinctness in to a debate criticised by a little Tories as unfocused and confused. An Ipsos MORI check yesterday showed the Tory lead slipping to five points and suggesting Labour could arise as the largest party.

George Osborne, the Shadow Chancellor, concurred that the celebration had done it as well easy for Labour to conflict it and shun inspection in return. That will right away change, he writes in The Times.

Mr Osborne, the partys debate co-ordinator, pronounced that the Tories would proceed to ask acid questions of Labours jot down and advise some-more categorically of the dangers of five some-more years of Gordon Brown.

But he additionally done transparent that, with the polls narrowing, the Tories could not means a safety-first campaign. Instead, the celebration would benefaction itself aggressively and unashamedly as the celebration that could be devoted with change.

Mr Byrnes comments on the necessity come in the week that Mr Osborne affianced to put slicing debt at the heart of the Tory campaign.

The eleven billion referred to by Mr Byrne was sketched out in the Nov Pre-Budget Report, but was criticised by a little for not in detail. It is piece of the twenty billion assets that will be in place by 2012-13, according to supervision plans. The rest is done up from frozen open zone pay, curbing open zone pensions and slicing a little spending programmes.

Mr Byrne referred to taht hospitals will turn exposed as trusts see to save income and urge potency by on condition that some-more healthcare in the community. Some hospitals will have to begin you do some-more of their caring in the village rather than in big costly hospitals, he said.

Asked if this could meant a little sanatorium buildings closing, he said: Yes. A lot of hospitals are meditative of relocating a little of their commercial operation out in to the community, since it is improved care, some-more convenient, additionally cheaper. I think the probable to improove services, saving money.

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$1bn fees excavation as the Pru seals greatest deal

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Three banks doing Prudentials $21 billion rights issue will share a jot down $600 million in fees, it emerged yesterday, as the insurer cumulative a transforming takeover to turn the largest general player in the Asian markets.

Credit Suisse, JP Morgan Cazenove and HSBC will take the lions share of the $1 billion costs compared with the Prus money call, the largest in history.

The fundraising forms piece of the Prus $35.5 billion merger of AIA, the Asian multiplication of AIG, that was reliable yesterday. The deal, some-more than fifteen months in the making, is the greatest takeover of an Asian association by a British predator and the largest understanding ever finished by an word group, heading AIGs $22.7 billion understanding for American General in 2001.

As piece of the financing for the takeover, the Pru will issue $10.5 billion of new shares to AIG, giving the US Government an surreptitious interest in the company. AIG is 80 per cent-owned by the US Government after a $182.5 billion bailout in 2008. AIG will finish up owning an eleven per cent interest in the sum group, apropos the largest shareholder. Pru will pretence a serve $5 billion in debts, handing AIG a sum of $25 billion in money for AIA on tip of the shares.

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The merger gives the Pru a No 1 on all sides in 7 Asian markets, together with Hong Kong and Malaysia, and a heading participation in a serve eight. It creates the Pru the largest unfamiliar insurer in China and India.

Tidjane Thiam, arch executive, hailed the understanding as a one-off, transformational opportunity. It will lead to a twin inventory for Pru shares in Hong Kong and London and emanate an general powerhouse that will beget some-more than half the sales and increase from the Asian economies, the fastest flourishing in the world.

Mr Thiam refused to order out relocating the Prus corporate domicile and senior manager group to Hong Kong. He pronounced that AIG had committed to sojourn an financier at slightest for the middle tenure and that it could secure a chair on the board.

Several of the Prus heading investors, together with the largest owner, Capital Group with only over 10 per cent, have concluded to behind the rights issue.

Pru shares fell some-more than twelve per cent to 529p, wiping roughly �2 billion off the insurers marketplace value, as investors eaten the huge money call.

Mr Thiam pronounced that the Pru had nonetheless to confirm who would run the lengthened Asian operations, now led by Barry Stowe, a former AIG executive. The insurer was additionally nonetheless to have a preference about that AIA management team it would rehire, raising a subject symbol over the destiny of Mark Wilson, arch executive.

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Working outdoor reduces masculine kidney cancer risk, investigate says World headlines

Exposure to object reduces the risk of kidney cancer in in in between men operative outdoors, a investigate has found. Photograph: AP

Men who work outdoors, enabling their bodies to emanate vitamins by bearing to sunlight, have a marked down risk of kidney cancer, researchers pronounced today.

In the largest investigate of the kind, scientists found that vitamin D – constructed by the skin when defenceless to ultraviolet light – was compared with a marked down rate of renal cancer of up to 73% in in in between men.

However, the study, published by the American Cancer Society, found that the marked down risk usually practical to men – there was no dump in renal cancer in in in between the women complicated who worked outdoors.

The researchers, from the National Cancer Institute in the US, pronounced the investigate of 2,500 workers in executive Europe upheld rising justification that the superiority of a series of cancers, together with breast, ovarian and colorectal cancer, was reduce when people were defenceless to ultraviolet light.

They pronounced vitamin D, a well known anti-carcinogenic, was carried by the physique to the liver and on to the kidneys, and endorsed serve research.

"Scientific justification suggests that vitamin D, that is in all done in the physique after bearing to the sunlight, might assistance forestall a series of diseases, together with cancer," the investigate author, Sara Karami, said.

"In the study, we used pursuit titles to guess object bearing at work. We noticed that men with high estimated levels of object bearing had a reduce risk of kidney cancer than men who had reduce estimated object bearing at work."

Scientists have monitored an enlarge in renal cell carcinoma (RCC), the main form of kidney cancer, in the US and globally over the past twenty years.

A rebate in vitamin D – probably caused by most some-more people carrying sedentary lifestyles and indoor jobs – is believed to be a expected contributory factor.

The researchers complicated some-more than 2,500 workers of Caucasian skirmish in Russia, Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic, bursting them in to 3 groups according to bearing to illumination in their jobs.

A poignant tumble of up to 38% in the risk of RCC was found with augmenting occupational UV bearing in in in between men.

In northern-most regions, that increasing to a 73% drop. But after anticipating no identical diminution in the risk for women, Karami said: "We do not have an reason for the clever differences in risk in in in between men and women".

"Biological or behavioural differences in in in between men and women might fool around a role. For example, hormonal differences might change the body"s reply to object exposure, and men might be disposed to operative outdoor whilst shirtless."

Although a little dishes enclose vitamin D, the infancy of people embrace up to 90% of the containing alkali by bearing to ultraviolet light.

Farm workers and those who embrace clever UV light reflected from the sea were in the top category. Those in high-sunlight jobs were insincere to embrace stand in the power of object to those in low-exposure jobs.

Despite the findings, the researchers warned opposite ignoring the "well-documented risks" of skin cancer ensuing from additional bearing to the sun.

"There are no open health recommendations from this study. Men and women should go on to deliberate their healthcare providers per the suitable volume of object exposure, weighing the well-documented risks in in in between object bearing and skin cancer risk," Karami said.

Healthy Caucasians can beget a full sip of vitamin D with 10-20 minutes" bearing to clever object on defenceless skin. After that, photo-degradation ensures no higher levels are created.

The anti-carcinogenic properties of vitamin D embody the impediment of swelling cell replication.

Analysis: is Gordon Brown free?

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So, with one bound, Gordon was free?

Probably not, but the ceiling rider in fourth-quarter GDP interpretation is positively encouraging, not slightest since it comes usually twenty-four hours after headlines that commercial operation investment collapsed by roughly a entertain on the same duration last year.

It is additionally some-more than the ceiling rider that had been expected.

However, counsel needs to be exercised. GDP expansion was still slower than majority economists had approaching prior to the Office for National Statistics repelled everybody with that 0.1 per cent figure last month.

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The unfamiliar sell market, where the most suitable present greeting is regularly to be found, delivered a co-ordinate outcome argent ticked higher opposite the US dollar but stays close to the $1.5187 nine-month low it strike opposite the federal reserve note on Thursday. And opposite the euro, argent essentially fell.

Meanwhile, closer hearing of the numbers reveals that most of the alleviation is being driven by supervision spending. That competence yield critical ammunition to Alistair Darling and the economists who behind him in his discuss with George Osborne, over the suitable timing of when to cut open spending to conflict the deficit, but it does not just yield most support for expansion in entrance quarters.

And that is the main regard seeking forward. GDP expansion during the initial entertain of 2010 could well be reduce than that completed in the last 3 months of 2009. That is partly due to the horrible sell sales total that followed the sleet in January, but anecdotally, most commercial operation leaders additionally inform bad underlying trade during January. That is going to have a big stroke on the initial guess for GDP expansion for the initial 3 months of 2010.

At the finish of the day, expansion of 0.3 per cent is not that most improved than 0.1 per cent, if anything, merely highlighting the infirmity of the recovery.

No consternation Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, has been murmuring increasingly loudly in new days about the probability of the Bank resuming the asset-purchase programme.

Britain streamer for hung council – Guardian/ICM check Politics

The Conservatives should no longer equate on winning the choosing outright, according to a Guardian/ICM check published today.

The new consult suggests Britain is on march for a hung council among unsatisfactory open await for David Cameron"s party.

The antithesis have additionally lost belligerent on key process issues, together with the economy, and in sold might be losing their debate opposite Labour"s supposed "death tax". Labour leads the Tories by eight points as the celebration with the infancy appropriate process on caring for the elderly.

The dual parties are neck and neck on their capability to sort out the mercantile crisis, opposite a nine-point Tory lead when the subject was last asked in Aug 2009.

With no some-more than 3 months to go until polling day, the Conservatives have depressed to 37%, down 3 on last month"s Guardian/ICM check and down dual on an additional ICM check progressing this month.

The celebration has not depressed so low in an ICM check given the tail finish of the promissory note crisis, last descending to 37% in Feb 2008.

As not long ago as last Oct the Tories strike 45% in an ICM check and the celebration will be dumbfounded by this ultimate justification that the competition is tightening, that confirms the commentary of a little alternative new polls.

Meanwhile Labour"s support, at 30%, is eight points up on the comprehensive ICM bottom last May, and somewhat on top of the normal for the second piece of last year. However, there is no pointer of possibly a progress for the celebration following Gordon Brown"s Piers Morgan talk or a tumble after this weekend"s reports about Brown bullying his staff.

Labour"s await is up one point on the last Guardian/ICM check and unvaried from the infancy new ICM poll. Research began last Friday and infancy was carried out prior to the serialisation of Andrew Rawnsley"s book in yesterday"s Observer, that might have influenced Labour support. Around a fifth of responses were picked up on Sunday.

Nick Clegg"s hopes of a absolute place in a hung council are additionally increased by today"s poll, that puts the Liberal Democrats on 20%, unvaried from the infancy new ICM and down one on last month"s Guardian poll.

All this suggests that Labour and the Lib Dems are holding solid whilst the Conservatives lose a little belligerent to not as big parties, that are on a sum of 13%. Nationalists are on 5%, Ukip and the Greens on 3% each and the BNP on 2%.

Estimates of what these shares would meant for the parties on polling day vary, but a 7% lead is at the margins of what the Tories think they need to win a majority. One educational calculation suggests the outcome would leave Labour usually twenty-five seats at the back of the Tories in a hung parliament, nonetheless any softened Tory opening in extrinsic seats would equivalent that.

• ICM Research interviewed a pointless representation of 1,004 adults by write on 19-21 Feb 2010. ­Interviews were conducted opposite the nation and the formula have been weighted to the form of all adults. ICM is a part of of the British Polling Council and abides by the rules